MinGW/MSYS and Libraries
Since I am moving from Microsoft Visual C++ to MinGW/MSYS, I would like to record down what are the libraries installed in my MSYS.
The following libraries are successfully compiled and installed in MSYS with MinGW:
- GLEW
- OpenSceneGraph
- Cal3D (using g++-3.4.5)
- osgCal2
- SDL
- FreeGLUT
- DevIL
- libpng
- zlib
- libjpeg
- libtiff
- libxml2
- FFmpeg
- Theora
- libogg
- libvorbis
- FreeType
- FreeImage
- Boost
- COLLADA DOM (using g++-3.4.5)
- minizip
- CppUnit (using g++-3.4.5)
- Expat
- cURL
- PCRE (using g++-3.4.5)
CEGUI- POCO C++ Libraries
- OpenCV (using tdm-gcc)
The following libraries are pre-compiled and used by MSYS with MinGW:
- Cg Toolkit
- OIS (Object-Oriented Input System), pre-compiled in OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Engine)
- OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Engine)
- CEGUI
The following libraries are pre-compiled (because I failed to compile them) and used by MSYS with MinGW:
- GTK+ (including Expat, Cairo, Iconv, FontConfig, Pango, etc), compiler independent because of C language
- GStreamer (WinBuilds), compiler independent because of C language
- Audiere, compiler independent because of using abstract class
The followings are the libraries I failed to compile and install:
- ZZIPlib
- OpenSSL
- TBB (Threading Building Blocks)
- SpiderMonkey
- OpenVRML
- FreeWRL
7 Responses to “MinGW/MSYS and Libraries”
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Any way of you giving me a precompiled ming32 FreeImage library, preferably static?
Email me at jarrod.gs@gmail.com
Hello, I think it would be better for you to compile it by yourself.
Where did you find pre-compiled binaries of Audiare for MinGW? I can’t find it anywhere and compiling it (especially under linux) seems like hell.
Hope you’ll answer.
Oh wait, I just noticed you didn’t find it, you just say it’s compiler independent. But then how do I link to the windows binaries? I get undefined reference no matter what I try (and I tried a lot of combinations using dlltool and reimp).
Make sure you know how to use -L and -l. This should solve your problem, when linking. Eg,
g++ -o output.exe -L/your/path/to/audiere.lib/ -laudiere the_object_files.o
Hi =)
I spent a lot of time to install some libraries which provide http or email functions, especially Poco….nothing worked.
Now I can see that you made it and I wonder if you can give me some instructions to install Poco on Windows7 with MinGW and MSYS.
I got these source files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/poco/files/sources/poco-1.4.3/poco-1.4.3p1.zip/download
When I started the “configure” script with MSYS I got some errors, so I changed the script a little to set the “$config” and the “$prefix” variables properly so that the “config.make” file was created.
Then I started the “Makefile” script and there were lots of errors and I don´t know how to get the script working.
Am I doing a mistake in changing the scripts? Do you think they work properly or did you fixed them too?
Or am I completly wrong with my steps?
Can you give me a step by step instruction?
Thanks for your reply =)
Hi brauni, that was happened quite a long time ago. I now switch to Linux, and cross compilation with mingw-cross-env. I don’t think that I have done any thing special during configure and compilation. But I always remember that, after installing all the basic MinGW and MSYS, then I download GTK+ precompiled binary, lirary and header files, paste them into MSYS folder. Then, most of the compilation will work fine. Because GTK+ has pkg-config, other libraries and headers. This is what I remember.